I was talking with Todd Hoff recently over at High Scalability
about a trend I’ve seen of late. ME: I really liked this post by
Zoli Kahan from Clay.io.Â AWS, cloudflare, docker, haproxy,
mysql, mongo, memcache, ansible.Â They use just about every
technology being talked about these days. Â Todd: Yah,
that’s why I asked […]

Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures publishes an excellent blog called
Coding VC. There you can find some excellent posts, such as
pitches by analogy, and an algorithm for seed round valuations
and analyzing product hunt data. He recently wrote a blog post
about a topic near and dear to my heart, Which Technologies do
Startups […]

Also find Sean Hull’s ramblings on twitter @hullsean. Don’t
believe me that you’re headed for the cliff? A startup scales up
to no avail Towards the end of 2012 I worked with an internet
startup in the online education space. Their web application was
not unusual, built in PHP and using Linux, Apache & Mysql
[...]

What does a cloud computing expert need to know? This is the last
of a three part guide to interviewing for a cloud operations
position. You can find them here – part one Operations Interview
and part two Deployment Interview. Here’s my guide to do just
that. 1. Database administration experience Although in some
shops [...]

What does a cloud computing expert need to know? In part one of the cloud interview guide we
covered some basic unix & Linux systems administration
skills, and cloud computing and infrastructure concepts. Those
are key starting points. You might also want to jump to …

Also find Sean Hull’s ramblings on twitter @hullsean. Having just
spent the last 24 hours in lower manhattan, while Hurricane Sandy
rolled through, it’s offered some first hand lessons on disaster
recovery. Watching the city and state officials, Con Edison,
first responders and hospitals deal with the disaster brings some
salient insights. 1. What are [...]

Today part of Amazon Web Services failed, taking down with it a
slew of startups that all run on Amazon’s Cloud infrastructure.
AirBNB was one of the biggest, but also Heroku, Reddit,
Minecraft, Flipboard & Coursera down with it. Its not the first time. What the heck …

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